A federal judge appointed by President Barack Obama has ordered a December status conference hearing after an unidentified woman filed a lawsuit claiming GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s. The hearing was scheduled for Dec. 16 at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

A status conference hearing is a pre-trial meeting between attorneys and a judge. These kinds of meetings lay out the progress of the case and set a timeline for discovery matters as well as a trial.

The plaintiff, known only as Jane Doe, accused Trump of raping her when she was 13 years old in 1993. The rape case has been filed twice before, with the most recent case in California dismissed in May 2016.

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The case was refiled in New York in June 2016 with an amended complaint that adds a new “witness” named “Joan Doe.”

Federal Judge Ronnie Abrams ordered the case be moved to the next step, according to LawNewz.com.

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The complaint alleged that billionaire convicted pedophile and known Bill Clinton associate Jeffrey Epstein arranged for teenage girls to attend his parties and that Trump was at one of those parties. Witnesses reportedly claimed that Trump and Epstein raped the plaintiff in this case several times.

Trump denied the allegations.

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Alan Garten, Trump’s attorney, also said the claims were false.

“As I have said before, the allegations are categorically untrue and an obvious publicity stunt aimed at smearing my client,” said Alan Garten, Trump’s attorney. “In the event we are actually served this time, we intend to move for sanctions for this frivolous filing.”